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L 1 fi umli Everybody's AH AU St Steamed Up Over Ethels Ethel's New Play Play Music Music Show Films It Seems Are Definitely en cn the Shelf NEW YORK YORK- YORK Notes from Crom the weeks week's log og Wandering through Forty fourth 1 t t I dropped i up for fOl a chat with Mannle seer Inthe in I Ithe the Shubert of offices of- of Ices and we fell teU to talking about tho the forthcoming n. n appearance Pp e a. a l' l aneo ol 01 oil Ethel I in a n burnt corl u f role And he tole me that so great was vas the timo Interest in this thi event that when through misinformation tOI mation mallon an erroneous erro erro- date was given tot for a L Cleveland Ohio opening opening open open- ing InS the time theatre front gathered a aine aline line ine several se f blocks long long- And al already already al- al read ready orders are coming tor or for seats scats for or a New e York opening despite time the fact that no mm date izi M been set And so so ambling along almost tripped over a L vaudeville vaude t who had hind squeezed his hla tin tiny way out of oC a n subway station and was as scam scam- poring perIn along carrying a Cl anIt vanity case for ot a handbag Only to bump square into Sid Bid th the HolI Holywood Hol- Hol I wood lywood impresario who arrived on vay to tn demonstrate how th the movie capital puts put on its er very super super-super premieres And they hey tell toil of or the time time when nil all ho- ho y was adorned with signs balloon bal- bal loon oona and knows what carrying carrying car car- r ln tho time slogan slog Welcome home hom Sill Sid whereas Grauman had hat never been out of oC town But Dut that's tho tIme wa way with things out there At lunch I r noticed Louis Bromfield Brom- Brom field who gra graduated from Crom a n Pulitzer Pulitzer zer prize author to a putter patter writer for Cor tho timo cinema And what has astounded the tIme towns town's writing entry more mora than limn any anything thins is that the time es esthetic esthetic es- es Louis has turned t d out a music show for COt Mons Mona wherein Marilyn n Miller lill r will appear And up and down the time main stem I heard hoard much moaning and commentary about the thc fate ate of oC music mud mid revue films In the talking ic- ic lures fures For the time word from Hollywood Hol Hol- lywood is 15 that the nooks and crannies crannies cran cran- nies fairly ly ali sag ng with manuscripts of mu musical comedies which have ha been paid for at H mm H hn heavy fee hut which doubtless will never ne reach h the pro pms stage Nor or air ar th time the Broadway n music sit simor 0 producers U Ln ny too happy over cr thia state of ot atC aff affairs since many had bad banked bankd on 01 the backing of jt the time movie millions for Cor winter productions Last Las season for Instance Fit Fifty Million Frenchmen and several se other othet- pro lire were financed out of ot the Hollywood coffers Whereas no now comes the time definite announcement announce- announce I ment that Warner Brothers Brother who had hud turned o out t man many a music show have o with withdrawn ra n all ail moneys monc from Crom Broadway shows how which has has caused at l least one music show project to scurry mound around for fOl another cash 1 teg- teg e Ister later And at least to me it seems that this serves ser them joll jolly well right The in lit which manner all Hol lie lywood cranked ed out an un endless amray array ar am ra ray of oC stupid son son- and nd dance films or 01 back stage stase atmosphere stories or hoofer yarns arns was declared it at the time by all the major critics to be both silly and suicidal Oh well I shall not wee weep fo for the passIn passIng passIng pass- pass Ing In- Inor of or tho those c goofy hooters hoofers What hat has interested me rae 11 particularly laxly Inri was tho tIme information pictures were killed In the tIme Important Important tant taut ke key cities of or the time land which earns came to gho si them the chilliest of oC shoulders The rime most niost lavish Ish of oC these they Ia tay ay was Rhapsody in Blue Upon which coin was tossed with Ith sUeh sUh utter recklessness around Broadway Broad the they lef refer l' l to to it a as the time rhapsody in in red with iUm tho wisecrackers referring of ot COUl course c to a Cl certain sub of or the ledger laminar cr Which r reminds me mC that this er very ery same Paul has been up- up n nil night nihl club lope dope b by p Packing pack pack- ck- ck In tn ing in him thousands f f persons nightly II at a n suburban t r n IS Jit resort f known as time the th 7 2 Gar Gar- ar Hollywood lens which has hashe hashe he largest ar est seat seat- Ing ins ca capacity of or my any night night- going spot of or tho the moI mo mo- I I ment Yet 4 before I 1 completely complete complete- ly iy leave the muI music mu mu- I 71 sic Ic picture subI subject sub tub I lect t let me admit hat hal Lynn Farnol Informs mo that time the film version of oC Whoopee I has ims a been scon privately here a and will n not t on only I be a lL gold mine mime but will establish Eddie J- J Cantor as m a screen H l' l en favorite over O th time the I IP ml p GILBERT RW SVAN AX Copyright ht 1330 1130 NEA EA Service Inc |
